Yeah, I can see that. Perl6 has gone through some rather painful VM stories trying to get to production. I'm an admitted Perl fan, so yeah, I'd love it if Perl

Yeah, I can see that. Perl6 has gone through some rather painful VM stories trying to get to production. I'm an admitted Perl fan, so yeah, I'd love it if Perl had an ultra-fast native-speed run-time. But oddly, speed has rarely been something that's been called out as a major problem in the same way that it has been with CL, Lua, Javascript, Python etc. It may also be that Perl 5 has always more or less had one implementation and has all kinds of messy parsing rules, so nobody bothered to complain since we all knew it was a disaster trying to sort that mess out.